Some Stats From the Patriots' Super Bowls In the BB/TFB Era

DennyDoyle'sBoil

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Here are a couple of interesting Super Bowl stats that are neither here nor there, but somewhat interesting.  This stuff interests me, but apologies if this doesn't deserve its own thread -- since there's an Edelman's Tinder Girl thread, I figured this one might be ok.
 
In the six Super Bowls in the Brady/Belichick era, the Patriots have scored on 8 of the 12 drives to end a half (if you don’t count kneel downs).  And, of course, in 2 of the other 4 times, they had less than a minute to try to score.
 
Moreover, the end of the halves in those 6 Super Bowls have been uniformly very exciting from a scoring perspective.  Of the 264 points scored in those 6 Super Bowls, 121 have been scored in the last 5 minutes of the a half.  So, that’s 45 percent of the scoring in about 17 percent of the games.  (I picked 5 minutes pretty arbitrarily – if you increase it to like 7:30 I think it might go up.)  Of course, the irony is that it was the 7 points that weren’t scored at the end of a half that might have been the most exciting of all.  
 
The Patriots in those six Super Bowls have outscored their opponents by six points, with no game having more than a four point spread.  The total score is 135 to 129, with an average score per game of 22.5 to 21.5.
 
It’s been repeated over and over that Brady has gone the longest of any QB between winning Super Bowls at 10 years.  After that it’s Staubach at 6 years, Montana and Eli at 4, and nobody else higher than 3. 
 
As mentioned in another thread, the Patriots became only the fourth team to win a Super Bowl with a minus turnover differential.  There have been 41 Super Bowls with a turnover differential and 8 without one.  There have been nine games with a +1 turnover differential, and the Seahawks are the only team to have lost despite a +1, which they have done twice.  
 
What else?